Rental/ wooden floor boards

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Rental/ wooden floor boards

Post by huntingfishingand4x4 » 10 Jun 2019, 12:02 pm

What’s the go for wooden floor boards for installing safe? Instead of concrete
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Post by pomemax » 10 Jun 2019, 12:10 pm

get one that,s over 150 kg is that the same in Vic as Nsw
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Post by xDom » 10 Jun 2019, 12:18 pm

Can’t you fix it to an internal wall stud?
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Post by huntingfishingand4x4 » 10 Jun 2019, 12:22 pm

Yes but I will also like to anchor it to the floor
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Post by pomemax » 10 Jun 2019, 12:59 pm

huntingfishingand4x4 wrote:Yes but I will also like to anchor it to the floor

coach bolt to studs underfloor
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Post by JSS » 10 Jun 2019, 3:25 pm

If it's a rental like your heading suggests i'd be checking with the owner before drilling holes in their wooden floors. If someone did that in one of my places without asking their bond money would be going towards replacing those floorboards. Much easier to bolt it to wall studs, then all you have is a little gyprock patching & painting when you remove it. It won't move if you get it bolted top & bottom to the studs.
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Post by No1Mk3 » 10 Jun 2019, 4:57 pm

JSS wrote:If it's a rental like your heading suggests i'd be checking with the owner before drilling holes in their wooden floors. If someone did that in one of my places without asking their bond money would be going towards replacing those floorboards. Much easier to bolt it to wall studs, then all you have is a little gyprock patching & painting when you remove it. It won't move if you get it bolted top & bottom to the studs.


This, decent 8mm or so Teks into the wall studs top and bottom and it will be very hard to move, in many cases superior to a loxon in concrete as the safe itself cannot be used as a lever to pull out the loxon or whatever masonry anchor you use. A bit of filler and paint when you leave and you get your bond back, Cheers.
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Post by OldManShooter » 15 Jun 2019, 2:21 pm

JSS wrote:If it's a rental like your heading suggests i'd be checking with the owner before drilling holes in their wooden floors. If someone did that in one of my places without asking their bond money would be going towards replacing those floorboards. Much easier to bolt it to wall studs, then all you have is a little gyprock patching & painting when you remove it. It won't move if you get it bolted top & bottom to the studs.



Yep , i did this. Easy to find 2 studs, 4 coach screws in each. Thing goes nowhere
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